Rack for holding false teeth.



No. 721,528. I I PATENTED FEB. 24, 1903. 0. E. WALL.

RAGK'FOR HOLDING FALSE TEETH.

APPLIOATION FILED DEC. 10, 1901.

WITNESSES I v [NVEIQTOH Urmond Well Z4flM 6/% 16 5 Arron firs UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ORMOND EDGAR WALL, OF HONOLULU, TERRITORY OF HAWAII.

RACK FOR HOLDING FALSE TEETH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 721,528, dated February 24, 1903.

Application filed December 10. 1901. Serial No. 85,839. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, ORMOND EDGAR WALL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Honolulu, Oahu, Territoryof Hawaii, have invented a new and Improved Rack for Holding False Teeth, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of this invention is to-provi'de a rack for holding false teeth which will serve also as an index to the dentist,tenabling him to make the proper selection in any work that is being done and also showing himjust what styles of teeth he needs to'complete his stock. It is my purpose to make the rack in such shapes and sizes as occasion may require and also to arrange the compartments of the rack in such a manner that the rack may be used for the various sets of teethviz., for the sets of two, four, six, or afull upper set, (fourteen teeth,) orafull upperand lower set, (twentyeight.) The drawings show a rack intended for sets of four teeth.

This specification is a specific description" of one form of theinvention, while the claims are definitions of the actual scope thereof.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both views.

Figure 1 is a fragmentary front View of the. rack, and Fig. 2 is a detail section on the line.

- partment and leaving a plane surface at the 2 2 of Fig. 1.

The rack may be formed of any material desired, preferably of sheet metal, and it is divided into a number of compartments by crossing indentations a, which serve the fur-, ther purpose of strengthening the sheet metal of which the rack is formed. In each compartment of the rack-is produced a depression I), occupying part of the compartment and filled with wax or like substance 0. The teeth (indicated at d) are held to the rack by pressing the spurs of the teeth into the wax,

as indicated in Fig. 2. This holds the teeth space at the side of each depression b the rack is provided with characters (indicated at e) which recite the various characteristics Patent of the .teeth of the compartment to which they refer.

. It is obvious that various alterations may be made in the form of the rack, so as to adapt it for holding sets of any number of teeth, without departing from the spirit of my invention.,.

Having thus :described my invention, I

' oceu pying part of the areas of the compartments, thus leaving a plane surface at one side of each depression, for the purpose specified, and means in the depression for removably holding the teeth 3. A tooth-rack for dental use, comprising a body portion divided into a number of compartments, and a means in each compartment for removably holding the teeth, said means occupying part of the area of the comside of said means, for the purpose specified.

4. A tooth-rack for dental use, comprising a body portion divided into a number of compartments, each compartment having a depression formed therein and said depres- ICO 6. A tooth-rack for dental use, comprising a body portion With crossing indentations dividing it into a number of compartments and each having a depression therein, said depressions occupying part of the areas of the compartments, thus leaving a space at one side of each depression, for the purpose specified, and means in the depressions for removably holding the teeth, the said means [0 for removably holding the teeth consisting in awax-like substance in which parts of the teeth may be embedded.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ORMOND EDGAR WALL.

Witnesses:

ROYAL D. MEAD, A. LEWIs, Jr. 

